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Single Idea 7152
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
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Full Idea
Along the guiding thread of the body. When protoplasm divides ½ + ½ does not = 1, but = 2. Thus the belief in the soul as monad becomes untenable.
Clarification
A 'monad' is Leibniz's idea of an irreducible atom of mind
Gist of Idea
With protoplasm ½+½=2, so the soul is not an indivisible monad
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 02[68])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.71
A Reaction
This is presumably an anticipatory remark about the cutting of the corpus callosum (in the brain), which seems to cut a physical person into two people. Personally I always found the absolute unity of the mind or person implausible.
The
25 ideas
with the same theme
[unified character of the thinking mind]:
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2127
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The mind has parts, because we have inner conflicts
[Plato]
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1737
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The soul seems to have an infinity of parts
[Aristotle on Plato]
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24046
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Understanding is impossible, if it involves the understanding having parts
[Aristotle]
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1717
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If the soul is composed of many physical parts, it can't be a true unity
[Aristotle]
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24053
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If a soul have parts, what unites them?
[Aristotle]
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1721
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What unifies the soul would have to be a super-soul, which seems absurd
[Aristotle]
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5145
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The rational and irrational parts of the soul are either truly separate, or merely described that way
[Aristotle]
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21387
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The separate elements and capacities of a mind cannot be distinguished
[Lucretius]
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5884
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How can one mind perceive so many dissimilar sensations?
[Cicero]
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5887
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The soul has a single nature, so it cannot be divided, and hence it cannot perish
[Cicero]
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5506
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If soul was like body, its parts would be separate, without communication
[Plotinus]
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2302
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Faculties of the mind aren't parts, as one mind uses them
[Descartes]
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21805
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Spinoza held that the mind is just a bundle of ideas
[Spinoza, by Schmid]
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5045
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No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self
[Leibniz]
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1356
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A person is a unity, and doesn't come in degrees
[Reid]
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24090
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Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity
[Nietzsche]
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7152
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With protoplasm ½+½=2, so the soul is not an indivisible monad
[Nietzsche]
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7130
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Unity is not in the conscious 'I', but in the organism, which uses the self as a tool
[Nietzsche]
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4536
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It is a major blunder to think of consciousness as a unity, and hence as an entity, a thing
[Nietzsche]
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7108
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The eternal truth of 2+2=4 is what gives unity to the mind which regularly thinks it
[Sartre]
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5792
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Explanation of how we unify our mental stimuli into a single experience is the 'binding problem'
[Searle]
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3480
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We experience unity at an instant and across time
[Searle]
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2957
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Brain bisection suggests unity of mind isn't all-or-nothing
[Nagel, by Lockwood]
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2426
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Why are minds homogeneous and brains fine-grained?
[Chalmers]
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4924
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A conscious human being rapidly reunifies its mind after any damage to the brain
[Edelman/Tononi]
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